About Amy White
Amy White is a former senior editor at Super Lawyers having been with the magazine for 17 years. Prior to that, she was a sports columnist and feature writer for a daily newspaper in Pennsylvania. Her freelance work can be found in Delaware Today Magazine, Mainline Today, Brandywine Hunt, Philadelphia Style and Delaware Beach Life. She is an adjunct professor of writing at the University of Delaware, where she graduated with a journalism degree. She also holds an MFA in publishing and creative writing from Rosemont College and has served as line editor on poetry anthologies and works of contemporary fiction. She loves baseball, bikes, books and coffee.
Articles written by Amy White
Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Transgender Employees
While the Human Rights Campaign's 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index report found that 72 percent of Fortune 500 companies offer transgender-inclusive healthcare — up from zero percent in 2002 — there is still work to be done when it comes to transgender employees and the workplace. As of March 2025, over half of all states have enacted laws banning or restricting gender-affirming care. For legal advice on creating inclusive work environments and employment policies, talk to an …
Transgender Student Rights in Illinois
A 2023 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study found that 3.3 percent of high school students in America identify as transgender and 2.2 identify as questioning. Schools and education lawyer Jennifer Smith of Franczek in Chicago says every student has the basic right to feel safe and accepted at school. “That starts with conversations among school staff and educators about how you identify the student in terms of student records as well as in class or around the building," she says. "What …
How Has Work-From-Home Emboldened Hackers and Phishers?
When it comes to a certain subset of cyber bad actors, the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent rise of remote work was the perfect storm for them to better their craft. Not only has new technology made a hacker’s job easier and phishing scams and cyberattacks appear more legit, but the nation’s collective exodus from the office to remote work had IT professionals focused more on the transition and less on cyber security. An Increase in Phishing Attacks Targeting Employees “We’ve seen …
The Real Power
Nisha Mungroo isn’t here for the paycheckNisha Mungroo thought she had it all figured out—she was going to be a corporate lawyer, make six figures and wield real power. As a first-generation West Indian American with Trinidadian roots on her mother’s side and Guyanese roots on her father’s side, and as the granddaughter of rural farmers, Mungroo felt she owed it to her family to dazzle. “My father was one of 15, I was the first of my nuclear family to go to college,” she says. “To my parents, having educated children …
Are Employee Complaints Protected Speech?
As an employee living and working in America, you are subject to the country's First Amendment rights to free speech. So, if you want to flip the bird to the presidential motorcade, you're immune to consequences from your private employer, right? Not exactly. Assuming all types of speech are protected can lead to trouble. There are restrictions based on the nature of employment and applicable laws. It is advisable to speak with an experienced employment lawyer for legal advice about protected …
Tech Support
Before she was a tech lawyer, Jennifer Beckage was in on the internet’s ground floorIn the late ’90s, Jennifer Beckage was a 20-something Southerner with big hair and a Texas twang who saw the future. She would sit down in boardrooms across the Northeast making a simple ask of Fortune 500 presidents: “Just throw away your entire marketing plan,” she says. “The whole world is changing. You should listen to me, a 20-year-old, and move your 100-year-old business online.” She laughs at the memory. “I believed in the product, I was passionate about technology and about …
Court to Court
How an encounter with a stingray led Cheryl Meyers Buth to the NBAIf you see Cheryl Meyers Buth tooling around Orchard Park in her Jeep, please stop asking her if she knows LeBron James. She doesn’t. “If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me that,” she says, laughing. (She does, however, have his agent’s number.) Why does Buth, one of Buffalo’s most renowned criminal lawyers, find herself questioned about one of basketball’s greats? You’d have to go back to an unfortunate run-in with a stingray. Buth and husband Neil (“The best life …
Can Employers Mandate the COVID-19 Vaccine?
As the nation’s workers returned to pandemic-shuttered office buildings, many concerns about personal safety lingered about coronavirus exposure—namely, who is vaccinated and whether an employer can make you submit proof of vaccination. Years after the COVID-19 vaccine changed the American workplace, experts now recommend that individuals treat COVID-19 like other respiratory viruses, such as the flu and RSV. An experienced employment lawyer can help you address the legal issues related to …
Including Pets in Your Estate Plan: Pet Trusts
To say that pets are family members doesn't encompass the depth of feeling that comes with loving and cherishing a furry, feathery, or scaly member of the clan. As with all facets of estate planning, the responsible thing is to make formal arrangements for the care of your beloved pet well before your death. “People are living longer and many older people are alone,” notes Chester B. McLaughlin, an estate planning attorney in Prescott, Arizona. “And so their pets become incredibly …
'This Won't Be the Last Crisis We See'
Juan Chavez on the tear gas-filled summer of 2020One moment Juan Chavez was decompressing with a beer with his fellow Oregon Justice Resource Center colleagues over Zoom; a few hours later, Portland’s Justice Center was on fire. It was May 29, 2020. The beer was an antidote to a tough day in court, in which Chavez and his team argued for increased health protections for prisoners in Oregon jails on the heels of the state’s first COVID-19 inmate death. The fire was a protest response to George Floyd’s killing four days earlier. “That …
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